Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.10 Core privileges management

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A vulnerability has been found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.10 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Core. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-53024. Attacking locally is a requirement. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.1.10. This affects an unknown part of the component Core. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). The supported version that is affected is 7.1.10. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-53024 since 06/24/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/18/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 242294 (Oracle VM VirtualBox (July 2025 CPU)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (242294). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Virtualization Software

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• Oracle

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• VM VirtualBox

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• 7.1.10

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• open-source (GNU GPLv3)

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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